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From: dmh@hpccc.HP.COM (David Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computers
Message-ID: <5730001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 01:58:10 GMT
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As a brief break in one of the original "holy wars"-
    The meaning of big/little indian is big/little "end in" first.

I do not remember seeing it in print before 1981 but I seem to remember
using it long before that.

Dave Hollander